Aside from the Defender we have mostly been working on polish, fixes and stability. Constructor movement is much improved with the application of raw move. The crash reporting system is working well as the engine seems to have become much more stable over the last few months. A noticeable performance boost should be noticeable thanks to the fixes for this ticket: https://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=5672.

Balance

Flail:

• Removed weapon AoE [?]
• Movement speed 106.2 › 105 elmo/s

Angler:

• No longer has to use all 4 missiles at once [?]
• Delay between individual missiles in a salvo 0.40 › 0.32 s
• Range 750 › 820 [?]

Hacksaw:

• No longer has to use both missiles at once [?]
• 100% faster vertical aim [?]
• 16% slower missile speed [?]

Solar Collector:

• No longer toggleable manually (still closes on damage)

Increased the footprints of some units. This reduces their ability to clump so whether it is a buff or a nerf depends on the situation.

• Roach, Tick, Flea and Skuttle footprint sizes increased to 2×2 (up from 1×1).
• Buoy, Hammer, Thug, Outlaw and Felon footprint sizes increased to 3×3 (up from 2×2).

UI

• Added reload bars for the special reload system used by Defender and Trident (as well as, now, Angler and Hacksaw).
• Added a setting to remove non-terminating commands (guard and patrol) from constructor command queues when they have a command added to their queue. Guard orders now cancelled by further commands unless they are given just after Guard. Enabled by default, lives under under `Settings / Unit Behaviour`.
• Camera fast/slow movement can be bound as a hotkey in the misc hotkeys menu.
• Builders now take a straight path towards their repair/reclaim/construction targets (if possible) and are much less likely to become stuck. This behaviour is already present for move commands.
• Factories now draw an arrow indicating their exit direction. Drag the mouse to change their exit direction.
• Added an option to show build ETA for icons on strategic zoom.
• Added an option to set tooltip opacity.
• Waiting units now have an overhead icon to indicate that they are waiting.
• “catching up please wait” now shows server time and a more accurate ETA.
• Enemy resign votes no longer show vote buttons.
• Unit value lost/killed is now tracked by endgame graphs.
• Added an option to deselect units that start retreating (default enabled).
• Add an option to make retreating units treated as different selection rank (default enabled, rank 1).
• Units now obey direct orders when retreating – the unit is still considered retreating during that time (for selection rank override and icon purposes) and will resume retreating (potentially getting deselected) after it becomes idle.

Miscellaneous

• Roach, Tick, Skuttle models are 20% bigger. This change does not affect game mechanics. Flea is similarly 10% bigger.
• Replaced 2D tree sprites with 3D models on some older maps.
• Added boxes for Trojan Hills v03.
• Zombies now raise commanders from the dead.

Fixes

• Fixed being unable to go back to the default camera if it was changed to another
• Fixed Smart Bombers disobeying manual fire state override
• Fixed tooltip overlapping the minimap when looking at ping on the default layout.
• Fixed a COFC free mode crash.
• Fixed a crash when killing a nanoframe and using old engine.
• Fixed double click attack move no taking into account mouse movement.
• Fixed teamcolors looking very similar.
• Fixed gesture menu with raw move.
• Fixed keep target with line move.
• Fixed Limpet using a weird metal chunk for wreck.
• Fixed Mace leaving a lingering green trail.
• Fixed a crash when a spectator moves to a player team (with cheats).
• Fixed many shader errors.
• Fixed bombers circling a target unable to reach it properly.
• Fixed Cobra aiming from hunched position (potentially thinking it’s blocked).
• Fixed Flea burrowing while attacking.
• Fixed a chicken queen morph crash.
• Fixed Stardust not prioritising close enemies.
• Fixed construction at zero storage when on a team of players who are also constructing.
• Fixed cases where very low income (eg from just a factory) would not be spendable without storage.
• Fixed Pylon and Zenith tooltip description not updating.
• Fixed disabled economy units income icons not updating.
• Fixed some cases where missile OKP failed to work against rapidly incoming enemies
• Fixed killed nanoframe debris tooltip showing full value.
• Fixed Engineer commander failing to shoot at very close targets.
• Fixed weapon lights rendering.
• Fixed crashing unit translations.
• Fixed shield colours.
• Fixed Circuit AI to obey unit disabling.
• Fixed Crude player list showing dead teams as alive.
• Fixed tactical AI getting stuck on useless targets such as Solars.
• Fixed Engineer commander and Infiltator spider having bad walk animations.

Balance

New unit: Limpet, an Amphibious Bomb. Unlike other bombs this unit does not cloak (in any case, cloak is disabled underwater). It has higher health and a large range to compensate.

• Cost: 180
• Health: 400
• Speed: 117 e/s
• Damage: 150 normal, 1500 slow. Maximum slow persists for up to 5 seconds.
• Damage radius: 250

Defender:

• Cost 120 -> 100 (was 80 previously)

Gauss turret:

• No longer overshoots.
• Reduced projectile speed by 45%.

Moderator:

• Maximum slow persists for up to 2 seconds.

Claymore:

• Health 1350 -> 1650
• Projectile is planted for two seconds before moving (in sea) or exploding (on land).

Ronin:

• Health: 3000 -> 2500
• Reload time: 4 -> 5 (Effective DPS 150 -> 120)
• Weapon velocity: 400 -> 350
• Turret traverse rate 150 -> 50

Siren:

• Sonic gun range: 380 -> 340

Reef:

• Cost: 3500 -> 3000
• Tacnuke replaced with disarm missile
• Stockpile cost: 600 -> 150
• Stockpile time: 60 -> 30
• Damage: 15000 disarm for a maximum of 10 seconds
• Range: 3000
• Damage radius: 140

Shogun:

• Cost: 3800 -> 4000

SLAM rocket:

• Cost 200 -> 150m

Zombies are no longer immune to slow damage. The 50% zombie slowdown is applied independently so now slow damage against zombies can cause them to move at 25% the speed of a normal unit.

Behavior

• Claymore tactical AI now runs away whenever it fires.
• Fixed a bug which prevented Reef and Bantha from moving close enough to their target.
• Units moving in groups now clump less at their destination.
• Overkill prevention now takes shields into account.
• High damage weapons now prioritize healthier units over unhealthy units when both units can be killed in a single shot.

Interface

The modoption “Set AI Spawns” is now active. Enable it to select the start positions for every AI in the game.

Map/Graphics:

• Limpet, Roach, Flea and Tick now leave tracks.
• F4 eco view: enemy mexes marked.
• F4 eco view: use colour of owner instead of hardcoded teal.
• Added more quality settings to LUPS.
• Added a menu toggle which controls whether dropped/lagging players units flash.
• Start position ranks now use the shiny ranks.
• Mace weapon now has sparks.

Terraform:

• Skydust UI can now be used to flatten and build on otherwise unbuildable terrain.
• Added ‘D’ as a hotkey to cancel blocks of terraform.
• Fixed the occasional long delay when building on a terraformed platform.

Stat graphs:

• Graphs now only go up to game over.
• Simplified the graph window when the game is ongoing.
• Added a toggle to show stat graphs to the global commands bar.

Other changes:

• Rewrote the selected units panel as the old version was a drain on performance.
• Hotkeys now available in simple menu mode.
• Constructors no longer inherit factory priority.
• Added a rate limit for incoming chat and ping noises.
• Dragging orders in the factory build queue no longer removes the Alt modifier.
• Radio buttons look more like radio buttons.
• Added a chicken panel toggle to the global command bar.
• Improved trainer commander selection UI and options.

Fixes

• Fix inheriting land/fly state.
• Fix missing endgame window
• Setting a hotkey no longer causes the window to replace itself.
• Fixed Racketeer getting stuck shooting at disarmed targets.
• Reduced graphs performance usage, especially when not enabled.
• Wreckage fixes, some units would leave full wreck when supposed to leave debris.
• Fixed move-repeat interaction.
• Fixed a delay caused when giving a move order to a jumping unit.
• Fixed units doing a Circle Guard getting confused and breaking the formation.
• Fixed ballistic scatter prediction position in the attack AoE display widget.
• Fixed menu search.
• Pause no longer delays the end of the game.
• Fixed unit XP display and it is no longer gathered on damage dealt outside LOS.
• Fixes for zooming the camera to a startbox.
• Fixed missing fighter jets.
• Fixed “Wait or Win” placement.
• Fixed mex placement with command insert.